Other people are great reflections of what is going on with us. How many times have you heard someone complain about how someone else was behaving and you thought to yourself "they don't do that with me." Whenever you have a reaction to someone else or an emotion comes up, it is really you reacting to what that person is reflecting inside of you that you are judging within yourself.

If you want to be able to accept the other person and live and let live (move beyond conflict), then the quickest way to do that is to not make the conflict about them, but about you. You cannot react to what does not live within you. This other person was actually a huge gift and they actually did add value to you because they were a willing participant (at some level) in assisting you in seeing that you may not be listening to yourself in some area of your life.

Conflict is really an opportunity for us to grow if we allow it to serve that purpose.